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Monday, September 08, 2003
Police to Call For National DNA Database
Trevor Mendham (The Chestnut Tree Cafe)
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A report in The Times suggests that the Police Superintendents' Association (PSA) will this week call for a compulsory national DNA database. Kevin Morris, chairman of the PSA, insisted that "people were not as fearful as politicians believed".

He's wrong.

The article also stated that Big Blunkett hopes to announce this month that he is to go ahead with his plan for compulsory National Identity Cards for innocent British citizens.

Call me cynical but I suspect a smokescreen. The row over a compulsory DNA database could obscure the arguments over Identity Cards. The tactic appears to be to set up the DNA database as a bogeyman so that compulsory ID Cards don't seem as bad.

Now is the time to write to your MP about Identity cards. Next month could be too late.

Partly cross-posted from The Chestnut Tree Cafe